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A review by novellyness
I Have the Right to Save My Planet by Alain Serres
3.0
I Have the Right to Save My Planet had some great facts pointed out along with hope for change involving the future generations on our planet. There were some problematic lines and the story didn’t flow naturally, however, it was from a child’s point of view and it involved children being encouraged to take action towards the betterment of the planet. So this book has potential with the story but it’s not quite where I would hope for it to be specifically in the illustration department.
It’s upsetting that we’re leaving these burdens on the shoulders of our youth so this book needs to provide solutions instead of facts about how humanity is destroying our one and only planet. These solutions NEED to show children participating in those actions instead of laying around in nature giving the impression that someone else will take care of it.
The illustrations don’t really add to the severity of the topics discussed aside from the visual of the whale with plastic inside of it. There are very few visuals actually showing children doing much to bring about these changes. We need to visually normalize these changes expected of our youth. Show illustrations of children cleaning up litter at a park or telling a parent not to litter, show a child at a grocery store gathering veggies in a reusable mesh bag, show a child turning their food waste into compost, show children making food from scratch with a parent, or show a child thinking about recycling something like a jar and how they could repurpose that jar to use for something else. There are so many ideas that could be presented visually in this book for children to easily participate in on a daily basis.
The message was there, the hope and dream of a better world was there but many of these issues are out of the control of children right now so provide them with the changes they can make now so that they can contribute to the changes they will need to provide in their future.
I don’t believe the illustrations compliment the story well enough for me to recommend this book and those visuals really take away from the importance of the message in this book.
Thank you to NetGalley and House of Anansi Press Inc for the digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.
It’s upsetting that we’re leaving these burdens on the shoulders of our youth so this book needs to provide solutions instead of facts about how humanity is destroying our one and only planet. These solutions NEED to show children participating in those actions instead of laying around in nature giving the impression that someone else will take care of it.
The illustrations don’t really add to the severity of the topics discussed aside from the visual of the whale with plastic inside of it. There are very few visuals actually showing children doing much to bring about these changes. We need to visually normalize these changes expected of our youth. Show illustrations of children cleaning up litter at a park or telling a parent not to litter, show a child at a grocery store gathering veggies in a reusable mesh bag, show a child turning their food waste into compost, show children making food from scratch with a parent, or show a child thinking about recycling something like a jar and how they could repurpose that jar to use for something else. There are so many ideas that could be presented visually in this book for children to easily participate in on a daily basis.
The message was there, the hope and dream of a better world was there but many of these issues are out of the control of children right now so provide them with the changes they can make now so that they can contribute to the changes they will need to provide in their future.
I don’t believe the illustrations compliment the story well enough for me to recommend this book and those visuals really take away from the importance of the message in this book.
Thank you to NetGalley and House of Anansi Press Inc for the digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.